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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Malala Yousafzai

Start date: December 1, 2016

Finish date: December 31, 2016

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Feb 15, 2021 Michaela rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction, education

Impressive story, but sometimes (starting with the title) sensationalistic. Also not well written, in spite of the ghost writer, but then it´s from a girl. A pity her mother is rarely mentioned, as her father seemed to influence her very much, and also lived as a partriarch.

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Oct 12, 2015 Kira Simion marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Will read this because I respect people who stand up for what they believe in and because she made a book that tells why she did.

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Oct 04, 2016 Diana Long rated it it was amazing

This was a very inspirational read by a lovely young Muslim girl from Pakistan who wanted above all else the right to be educated. I had no idea of the many problems facing young woman in her world and it was truly an eye opening experience reading her story. What we take for granted here in America, an education, she had to speak out against the denial of being able to go to school. The Taliban must have been threatened about her voice as she was eventually shot to silence her. Fate or her God ...more

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Dec 16, 2016 Vi rated it it was amazing

“The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.”
I discoved Malala in 2014 when she won the Nobel Peace Prize. I couldn't not be impressed by her, a 17 year-old girl who had won the Nobel Peace Prize. Since then I searched, I learned more about her and the situation of the Taliban, I supported her because she proved to be a girl full of kindness and willingness to fight for what she believed in.
I asked my father if he could buy me this book and when I ...more

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